The proposed class action lawsuit claims that Uber regularly shows higher fares to riders than it does to drivers. Uber then apparently pockets the difference in addition to taking its usual cut from the driver.

After years of relentless litigation, it seems the mobile/smartphone patent war might be drawing to a close. Rockstar, a patent trolling company owned by Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson, and BlackBerry, has agreed to cancel the lawsuits it had filed against Google and most Android device makers. This follows on from news this summer that Apple and Google had agreed to drop all lawsuits between the two companies, and Apple and Samsung agreed to drop all lawsuits outside the US.

The long running class action lawsuit, which just concluded in Apple’s favor, alleged that Apple acted as an illegal monopolist, artificially keeping iPod prices high by limiting its interoperability with content purchased from other music stores. Is there any basis to these claims, or were Apple’s moves simply a case of good, solid business sense?

The Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo’s antenna rebroadcasting service is illegal in its current form. This almost certainly means the death of the company — but it also points to the need to reconsider copyright in the US.